On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Mark <grim...@mitsein.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Evan Prodromou <e...@status.net> wrote:
>>
>> I'd like to make the following fine-tuning changes to !groups in 0.9.x:
>>
>> If you mention a !group, even if the notice is not distributed to the
>> group, the name gets linkified as a tag.
>> At the group admins' discretion, non-members can be allowed to post to a
>> group. The default is set by the site admin. Example use case: a !support
>> group for asking for tech support on identi.ca.
>> At the site admin's discretion, groups can share the same (logical)
>> namespace as users. In this case, you can't have a group named "foo" and a
>> user named "foo".
>> At the site admin's discretion, "@name" will send a group message, just
>> like !group. (This will clearly work best when there's no confusion whether
>> "@name" is for a user named "name" or a group named "name" -- that is, when
>> 3 is enabled.)
>>
>> -Evan
>>
> So item 3 is only so that item 4 will work?  Is there any other usefulness
> to it?

There's value in 3 on it's own. I run the OLPC account on identi.ca
and having less confusion with the !OLPC group would be great.
(although migration to this new model on identi.ca will be "fun" for
whoever does the final merging)
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